strategic-culture | So: America is a dictatorship by the billionaires.
And this means that it operates by fooling the public. France is
similar, though it achieves this via a different way. And, in both
countries, deceit is essential, in order to achieve its dictatorship.
Fooling the public is now what it’s all about, in either
case. Democracy can never be won by fooling the public; because fooling
the public means removing the public’s ability to control the
government. So, calling such a nation a ‘democracy’, is, itself,
deceiving the public — it’s part of the dictatorship, or else support of
the dictatorship.
In
former times, this system was rationalized as ‘the divine right of
kings’. Now it’s rationalized as ‘the divine right of capital’. But it’s
also become covered-over by yet another lie: ‘democracy’. This is a
‘democratic’ aristocracy; it is an ‘equal opportunity’ aristocracy. In
it, each citizen has ‘equal rights’ as every other citizen, no
matter how wealthy. It’s just a castle of lies. And its doors are
actually open only to the few richest-and-well-connected.
Here, a former CIA official tries
to describe how the American dictatorship works — the enforcement-part
of the system, and he does (even if only by implication) also touch upon
the financial sources of it. Starting at 1:07:35 in that video, he
discusses his personal case: why he could no longer tolerate working for
the CIA. But his description of how he, as an Agency official, saw the
system to function, starts at 3:45 in the video. Key passages start at
12:45, and at 20:15. Maybe any American who would email this article to
friends who don’t understand how the system functions, will come under
increased US surveillance, but that CIA official’s career and family
were destroyed by what the system did to him, which was lots worse than
just surveillance. Remarkably, he nonetheless had the courage to persist
(and thus did that video). However, when one sees how politically
partisan (and so obtuse) the viewer-comments to that video are, one
might be even more depressed than by the account this former CIA
official presents. But, even if the situation is hopeless, everyone
should at least have the opportunity to understand it. Because,
if the aristocracy are the only people who understand it, there can’t
be any hope for democracy, at all.
